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Hollywood Leftist Sean Penn Praises Hugo Chavez at Candlelight Vigil: ‘He’s One of the Most Important Forces We’ve Had’

Dec. 12, 2012 12:35pm Erica Ritz

Sean Penn Praises Venezuelas Inspiring Hugo Chavez at Candlelight Vigil in Bolivia

(Photo: AP)

Hollywood leftist Sean Penn’s support of the belligerent socialist leader of Venezuela is well-known.

Around this time last December a Venezuelan-raised actress called him out as a “communist a**hole” at an airport for his stance, but Penn has steadfastly supported the man who called President Bush “the devil” at the United Nations headquarters in 2006 and accused the United States of giving him cancer.

Saying journalists who refer to Chavez as a “dictator” should be jailed (which should tell you a little something about how he understands freedom), Penn claimed in 2010: “Who do you know here who’s gone through 14 of the most transparent elections on the globe and has been elected democratically, as Hugo Chavez?”

With Chavez’s recent cancer relapse, Penn held back emotion while speaking of the ailing statist at a candlelight vigil in Bolovia on Monday:

[Hugo Chavez] is one of the most important forces we have had on this planet, and I [wish] him nothing but that great strength he has shown over and over again.

I do it in love, and I do it in gratitude. So I just want to say that from my very American point of view of my friend Hugo Chavez, it is only possible to be so inspiring as he is as a two-way street…and he would say that his inspiration is the people.

Watch the entire video, in which Penn takes the liberty of explaining things from an “American” point of view, below:

(H/T: Hollywood Reporter)

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MistaB
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 1:46pm
The best part of Dead Man Walking is the end!

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- sillyfreshness
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:53am
  Sean Penn=leftist “chosen person” Juden in Hollywood. Not unlike 85% of the actors there.
  
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ResistSocialism
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 1:44pm
Sean Penn should go live in Venezuela since he likes Chávez so much.

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- Kaoscontrol
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:05pm
  With friends like Chavez, who needs enemas?
  
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- starman70
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 7:45pm
  Hey Sean, you are free to pack up your belongings, close your American bank accounts, sell all your stocks and bonds, transfer all the money you earned from the American movie goers and MOVE to Venezuela. Hugo would love to have you there. He could immediately confiscate most of your fortune in taxes. That might help his failing economy for a few days.
  
  Chavez would reward you with the position of Secretary of Film and Entertainment. You would be in charge of producing propaganda films and stage plays extoling the virtues of Communism and of the fearless leader himself. You could do all this for a measly 20,000 pesos a year. (A far cry from what you earn for just one movie in America.)
  
  Yes sir, Sean, if you think that Chavez’s Venezuela is that great, go ahead and move. Please leave America to the Constitution and Declaration of Independence beliving patriots.
  
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- KURT1010
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 6:30am
  Ditto ! !
  
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b2smooth
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 1:38pm
What an idiot…that’s all I can say.

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TheGrtDcptn
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 1:36pm
penn and chavez…two worthless pieces of trash…

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huey6367
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 1:32pm
Strangely, I don’t see Spicoli moving to Venezula.

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AmericaMustBeFree
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 1:29pm
Notice Sean Penn is getting uglier as he goes down the communist trail! I know evil when I see it. I would tell Sean this if you love Chavez so flipping much, we welcome you to pack your family and move to Venzuela.. but its a one way ticket! Anyone who reveres a dictator has a screw loose!

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right-wing-waco
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 1:24pm
Sean WHO! He is irrelevant, as well as a dumb hollywood type. Sean should move to Chaves’s bastion of freedom and be sure to take all your money with you.

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ares338
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 1:23pm
I care what this thing says why?

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- CathyvanDyke
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 2:17pm
  …. because Sean Penn speaks on behalf of many Americans … many Americans who embrace a Socialist/Marxist entitlement ideology.
  
  Chavez Repeats ‘Devil’ Comment at Harlem Event
  Thursday, September 21, 2006
  
  NEW YORK — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, appearing Thursday at a Harlem Church for an oil-for-poor event, repeated his ‘devil’ reference hurled a day earlier at President Bush during a speech at the United Nations
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  “They told me that I should be careful after I called him the devil — and I think he is the devil — because he might kill me” Chavez told a crowd packed into the Mount Olivet Baptist Church in Harlem. ….
  
  In Harlem, the crowd chanted in Spanish, “Chavez, Chavez, the people are with you,” as he walked into the church dressed in his signature red shirt.
  
  Chavez called Bush a “sick man” who was “very dangerous because he has so much power.”
  
  http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,214973,00.html
  
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Exidor
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 1:18pm
Sean Penn is a delustional POS just like Ed Asner and Danny Glover.

Both Chavez and Castro will be dead soon. They can take Sean Penn, Ed Asner, Danny Glover and Harry Belafonte with them.

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tj1961
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 1:15pm
Was Sean Penn such a “Man of Peace” when he was bioch slapping Madonna??

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- Kaoscontrol
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:03pm
  It gave the world peace knowing Madonna got biotch slapped…One must admit she’s pretty “biotchy” and probably deserves it from time to time. Problem is, she probably enjoys it.
  (just jesting– I don’t really believe it hitting a woman. on the other hand, Madonna is more beast than woman, so…)
  
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- tj1961
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:31pm
  Things that make you go hhhmmmm….
  
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Tri-ox
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 1:13pm
Penn speaks for all demolibs – this is how they think.

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JAMACAMECRAZYMAN
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 1:12pm
You know you are a POS when ditched by Modanna……………….

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- tj1961
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 1:26pm
  So True!!
  
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shagstar
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 1:11pm
i think he is billy mahrs blood brother,,,they look and sound the same!

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Rickfromillinois
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 1:10pm
I haven’t watched a Sean Penn movie since High Times, his greatest work, which isn’t saying much. I will never watch anything that he has anything to do with and I hope that many others feel the same way. I am tired of these Hollywood numb sculls who publicly proclaim how terrible our country is and how great those who are our enemies are. One thing I do notice about these rich spoiled jerks is that no matter how terrible they think the U.S. is and how great they think countries that hate us are, they still live here. Boycott these parasites.

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- searcher619
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 1:27pm
  Preach on! I haven’t paid to see any of his films in ages.
  
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- k2weaver
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 1:38pm
  Hear! Hear!
  
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- Sgt_Rock
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 2:21pm
  Ditto…
  
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BasketFullOfPuppies
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 1:07pm
Sean Penn will, one day, be remembered alongside the people that thought Hitler was a great guy.

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OldSurfRat
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 1:05pm
Ok yes I use Penns character (Jeff Spicoli / Fast Times at Ridgemont High) but only because I was like that in high school. Not proud of it but true.

However I really think this guy has issues and cant stand his positions and who he hangs with.

So to Mr Penn I say (Link Below)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cOMJJQ1RpY

BTW: I grew up and have owned my own company for 19 yrs and no it’s not selling drug either. LOL

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LFreeman
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 1:01pm
And now Sean Penn is added to the list of Hollywood people, along with Jamie Foxx, that I will never watch, in any form, ever again.

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- Warphead
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 2:14pm
  And Morgan Freeman.
  
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- LFreeman
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 2:34pm
  I used to like Morgan Freeman (no relation) but yeah, he is on the list too.
  
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- trolltrainer
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 2:36pm
  You JUST NOW getting around to adding him to the list?
  
  Sheesh…
  
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The_Jerk
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 12:53pm
Shocking, Sean Penn, another left-wing Hollywood type supporting communism.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-stein19-2008dec19,0,4676183.column

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Warphead
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 12:53pm
Ah, Sean Penn. A true national treasure. An outspoken genius with an IQ equivalent to no man. A man made from the purest of pyrite shining so brightly amongst a collection of fine rare metals and jewels. The epitome of a rebel for which there is no cause. A self made man of humble beginnings that has arisen to great heights of mediocrity. Shall I go on?

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elosogrande
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 12:52pm
Dolt!

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UNALIEN
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 12:49pm
His father Leo Penn was one of those “innocent liberal” directors blacklisted by evil anti-communists. In reality, this “innocent liberal” was a card-carrying member of the CPUSA (KGB supported), unequivocally supported Stalin, and opposed American entry into World War II during the period of the Nazi-Soviet pact.

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Fubared
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 12:47pm
He needs to get skinny Mikey Moore and get on down there for hands on action. He should be donating all of his blood, and using the blubber from Moore to sustain el jeffe.

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ArmedAndReallyPissed
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 12:46pm
Yet another Communist added to my “hope they die soon” list.

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Watcher1952
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 12:43pm
Chavez is now paying for his life with his life…..he has built such a good Medical Community in the big V…that he goes to Cuba to be treated……..Penn will be paying also one of these days……he needs to go to the big V to live……such a Penis Head he is……can’t act either

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randy
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 12:41pm
Hey Sean, You COMMIE! How come he didn’t nominate you to be his successor?

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- naughtycal
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 12:55pm
  the commie apple doesn’t fall afr from the tree Penns dad was a card carry communist
  
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- DIR
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 2:11pm
  @NAUGHTYCAL
  
  The saying that better applies to Penn is: “The roadapple doesn’t fall from the a$$ (as in donkey, but other’s apply as well).”
  
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